While the left gets slammed for launching challenges to incumbents, centrist Democrats backing a Republican in a swing district gets no attention at all.
The president first disavowed and then praised a baying mob that responded to his rant against a Somali-American congresswoman by chanting, “Send her back.”
Citizens United created a huge loophole for foreign influence in American politics, and in the nine years since then, it’s been used over and over again.
The Senate minority leader said he had expected the House to pass a stronger bill, after which the two chambers would negotiate a compromise.
Gig economy workers who support the legislation view it as a necessary step toward their ability to collectively organize. Uber and Lyft want a workaround.
Kellyanne Conway seems blissfully unaware that her own ancestors were once the target of the sort of nativist hatred that her boss is currently ginning up.
When it comes to immigration, both the politics and the policy, perhaps no Democrat has been more destructive over the past 25 years than Rahm Emanuel.
Incumbent Democrats are lashing out. To get a sense of why, the case of Columbus, Ohio, is instructive.
The congresswomen offered a passionate defense of the nation’s highest ideals, voiced with the conviction their partyÆs leaders have been unable to summon.
Reversals are uncommon in large recounts, but the Cabán campaign’s post-election strategy is uncommonly robust and proactive.
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